
Law, Mobilization, and Social Movements
How Many Masters?
Cambridge University Press
Published on 28. March 2024
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Hardback
90 pages
978-1-009-49301-7 (ISBN)
Description
Legal and social movement scholars have long puzzled over the role of movements in moving, being moved by, and changing the meanings of the law. But for decades, these two strands of scholarship only dovetailed at their edges, in the work of a few far-seeing scholars. The fields began to more productively merge before and after the turn of the century. In this Element, the authors take an interactive approach to this problem and sketch four mechanisms that seem promising in effecting a true fusion: legal mobilization, legal-political opportunity structure, social construction, and movement-countermovement interaction. The Element also illustrates the workings and interactions of these four mechanisms from two examples of the authors' work: the campaign for same-sex marriage in the United States and social constitutionalism in South Africa.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
290 gr
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978-1-009-49301-7 (9781009493017)
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Introduction; 1. How movement scholars turned to the law; 2. Legal scholars turn to movements; 3. Crossovers and convergences; 4. Theorizing law and movements through four mechanisms; 5. Two test cases; Conclusions; References.